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7% complete! salt marsh has read 4 of 52 books.
Fortune favors the bold. Magic favors the liars.
Ren is a con artist who has …
I got this while requesting library books without much vetting so I'd have something around to read while I'm waiting for some long-running holds to come in, so I'm going into this one a little dubious.
Generations of readers young and old, male and female, have fallen in love with the March sisters of Louisa May …
The Scarlet Letter: A Romance is a work of historical fiction by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in 1850. Set …
At Noma--four times named the world's best restaurant--every dish includes some form of fermentation, whether it's a bright hit of …
A depiction of the Sumerian civilization in ancient Mesopotamia based on excavated literary tablets. Describes all that was understood about …
A depiction of the Sumerian civilization in ancient Mesopotamia based on excavated literary tablets. Describes …
The Sumerian cylinder seal "rolled" it's way all over the ancient world from India to Cyprus and Crete...
— The Sumerians by Samuel Noah Kramer (Page 290)
Was this whole book just a setup for that pun
I can't read this without cracking up
A depiction of the Sumerian civilization in ancient Mesopotamia based on excavated literary tablets. Describes …
... near the very beginning of the document, one of these worthies addresses the other as follows:
You dolt, numbskull, school pest, you illiterate, you Sumerian ignoramus, your hand is terrible; it cannot even hold the stylus properly; it is unfit for writing and cannot take dictation. (And yet you say) you are a scribe like me.
To this the other worthy answers:
What do you mean I am not a scribe like you? When you write a document it makes no sense. When you write a letter it is illegible. You go to divide up an estate, but are unable to divide up the estate. For when you go to survey the field, you can't hold the measuring line. You can't hold a nail in your hand; you have no sense. You don't know how to arbitrate between contesting parties; you aggravate the struggle between brothers. You are one of the most incompetent of tablet writers. What are you fit for, can any one say?
— The Sumerians by Samuel Noah Kramer (Page 241)
"you Sumerian ignoramus" is perhaps the greatest insult I have ever read, just an incredible document of diss tracks from antiquity
For every two lovers of sweet baked treats, there is at least another who will …
I love a savory baked good
In The Grief of Stones, Katherine Addison returns to the world of The Goblin …
just waiting for June 2022
A reluctant medium discovers the ties that bind can unleash a dangerous power in this compelling Malaysian-set contemporary fantasy.
When …
Content warning food
I cut up and fried a leftover chicken patty I had in the freezer from the first recipe I tried and put it in japanese curry and it was really good!
@sohkamyung if you read it, I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on it as someone with that context! I'm really enjoying it so far, but it's totally unfamiliar to me
A reluctant medium discovers the ties that bind can unleash a dangerous power in this compelling Malaysian-set contemporary fantasy.
When …
A standalone novel in the fantastic world of Katherine Addison's award-winning The Goblin Emperor.
When …
This was one of those books that when it ended, I missed getting to be in the world. It has a kind of understated, slice-of-life feel, with a lot of detail and reverence paid to the minutia of daily life and community relationships, that felt more prominent to me than the murder mysteries. Addison writes with an immense amout of compassion and tenderness, and for me that is what makes this book, and The Goblin Emperor, transcend what they would be on their face, in terms of plot.
The writing style drops you into the cultural nuances of the society largely without explanation, and you can infer, for example, what different honorifics mean through context. I really really like this and I think overall its very well done, but I think it would be more daunting if I hadn't already read The Goblin Emperor, and there were some …
This was one of those books that when it ended, I missed getting to be in the world. It has a kind of understated, slice-of-life feel, with a lot of detail and reverence paid to the minutia of daily life and community relationships, that felt more prominent to me than the murder mysteries. Addison writes with an immense amout of compassion and tenderness, and for me that is what makes this book, and The Goblin Emperor, transcend what they would be on their face, in terms of plot.
The writing style drops you into the cultural nuances of the society largely without explanation, and you can infer, for example, what different honorifics mean through context. I really really like this and I think overall its very well done, but I think it would be more daunting if I hadn't already read The Goblin Emperor, and there were some points at which I needed a little help. Specifically, I found the sexual mores confusing, and it was important to the plot that they make sense.
I would highly recommend this if you read and liked The Goblin Emperor, but I'd be more cautious to recommend it if you haven't, even though it's not a sequel per say.
